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Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth.

The newest version of Microsoft DirectX is DirectX 11 (6.01.7600.16385) released on July 22, 2009 for Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, currently beta available via Platform Update for Windows Vista, Windows 7.

Games with DirectX 11 support

- Alien vs. Predator from Rebellion Developments
- BattleForge from EA Phenomic
- Crysis 2 from Crytek
- Dirt 2 from Codemasters
- Dungeons and Dragons Online from Turbine
- F1 2010 from Codemasters
- The Lord of the Rings Online from Turbine
- Race Driver: Grid 2 from Codemasters
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat from GSC Game World

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